The EU enlargement of 2004 resulted in high levels of labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to the Western European member states. Western European trade unions responded to the phenomenon of CEE migration by developing various initiatives which combined existing recruitment and... Find out more

Download the book PDF for free or order printed version Please use #EUSocialPolicy2020 The OSE and the ETUI have the pleasure to invite you to this webinar for the launch of the 21st edition of ‘Social policy in the European Union’. Programme Welcome and introducing the book outline of the book... Find out more

Organised by the EWPCC in cooperation with Labour Law Centre of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and the Greek Society for Labour and Social Security Law (EDEKA) The Covid-19 pandemic has brought massive social and economic consequences for workers around the world and... Find out more

The 20th edition of the joint ETUC and ETUI yearly publication Benchmarking Working Europe comes at an extraordinary moment in time. The Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic recession offers the crudest and harshest of “stress tests” to probe the ability and willingness of the EU to emerge... Find out more

The idea behind this conference is to explore the potential, but also the challenges, of outlining an EU social agenda that is mainly based on the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). While the Pillar establishes crucial programmatic principles for the development of the social dimension of the... Find out more

Transatlantic Social Dialogue Webinar Series Obtaining influence over policy decisions on Covid-19-related economic and social policies has been of enormous importance for both trade unions as well as business organizations. But the two sides are unequally equipped in terms of financial and... Find out more

The shorter working week has always been at the heart of the labour movement. The eight-hour movement extended beyond borders and ensured that today we enjoy things like the weekend and the eight-hour day. After decades in the political wilderness, the shorter working week is fast becoming one of... Find out more

Conference organised by: the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), the European Lawyers for Workers (ELW) Network and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), with the support of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) The conference will take the form of a... Find out more

La transition vers une économie neutre pour le climat est un changement majeur de nos modes de production, de transport et de consommation. Ce webinaire discutera des choix politiques qui pourraient garantir que cette transition soit juste pour les citoyens, les travailleurs et les entreprises d... Find out more

The current pandemic continues to set back the European economy and is expected to cause an even deeper recession than the ones caused by the global financial and Eurozone crises, whose scars had been barely overcome in several countries in Europe. Although the short-term emergency responses to the... Find out more